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RESEARCH INTERESTS
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Sociology of collapse

  • Alienation and estrangement

  • Loneliness and isolation

  • Social implications of climate systems deterioration

Urban planning, housing, homelessness, cities

  • The microsocial impacts of urban planning and development of meaningful housing and rehabilitation programs

  • Understanding issues of addiction, relationships, and housing through the perspectives of the affected persons rather than from academic, legal, or political ones

  • Community research and engagement that demonstrates the core issues and proposes solutions that work

  • Understanding how city governments who focus on community advancement rather than individual gain have transformed their communities

Criminalization of homelessness

The carerality of poverty - Predictive policing in minoritized communities

Accessibility

Promoting dignity through spatial development 

Modes of transit that are safe for those using mobility devices, or simply traveling on foot.

Mental and physical health outcomes to creating more inclusive and secure pedestrian and public transit travel

Queer sociology

  • Anti-trans legislation

  • Colonial/modern gender system

  • The consequences of the collective forgetting of cultural histories (This actually reaches far beyond queer issues)

  • The meanings of place (the gay bar)

  • Obsolescence of existing cultural and social waypoints; Replacement of them with technology. Impact on psychological health and social skills. Furthermore, the impact on physical health (increasing STD rates).

  • The absence of the sign posts of queer personal growth for future generations

  • Racism, sexism, and transphobia in LGBTQ+ communities: Intersectional experiences; “No fats, femmes, blacks, or asians”

Commercialization of pride

Cops & corps at Pride

Capitalism, corporations, and government

How the benefit of private interests intersects with everything on this list

The protection of private capital before the rights of citizens and communities

How is this playing out right here in central San Diego?

Privatization and nationalism